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As we celebrate the Pauline Year, the 2,000 th anniversary of the birth of the apostle to the Gentiles, this month of January, we reflect on the conversion of St. Paul, a conversion that involved a recognition first and foremost that one can be saved only by God's mercy and through sharing in the death-resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Secondly, as St. Paul discovered in his dialogue with the Risen Lord  on the road to Damascus, to love the Lord, we must love His Body, the Church.

Heavenly Father, as we celebrate the conversion of St. Paul, renew within us a zeal for the message he taught in word and deed – that we are saved, not by our own works, but by faith in the death-resurrection of Jesus Christ.

With St. Paul, may we put this faith into action through loving service of the least of our brothers and sisters.

We ask this grace and blessing for ourselves and for all our fellow Christians through Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.  Amen.

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